What A Storm we had in Melbourne

There a typhoon Shanshan hitting some island in Japan at the moment, I have been in contact with my son over there and he tells me that it will cross tomorrow or Friday island (shikoku) he is in the Tokushmia prefecture. He is still going to work, he said he will be fine. But a mum will always worry

Mine won't. [wink11]

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Originally Posted by 3toes

Here in the UK they have decided to start naming storms in a similar fashion to how the rest of the world names cyclones/hurricanes and typhoons. For a storm to be named it had to meet the following: there is the possibility of travel delays, road and rail closures, power cuts and the potential risk to life and property

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Strewth. Those occur on nearly a weekly basis up here... Gunna run out of names.